Short title
1.
These regulations may be cited as the Mental Health Care and Treatment Regulations
.
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Definition
2.
In these regulations "Act" means the Mental Health Care and Treatment Act
.
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Appropriate place
3.
(1) For the purpose of section 25 of the Act, any one of the locations referred to in the schedule shall be considered to be an appropriate place in which a person who is the subject of 2 completed certificates may be held pending his or her conveyance to a psychiatric unit for admission as an involuntary patient.
(2)
A person in charge of a place referred to in subsection (1) shall have, in addition to the powers conferred upon him or her by an Act respecting that place, the powers and duties of an attending physician or his or her designate as set out in section 11 of the Act respecting the custody and control of the person who is held in that place.
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Reasonable limits on use of telephone
4.
Where subsections 11(4) and 12(2) of the Act refer to reasonable limits on the use of the telephone, those reasonable limits shall be determined by considering:
(a)
if
, in the opinion of the attending physician or his or her designate, the use or continued use of the telephone would be detrimental to the evaluation or treatment of the person's mental disorder ;
(b)
if
continued use of the telephone would cause an unreasonable disturbance to other detained persons or patients;
(c)
if
continued use of the telephone prevents other detained persons or patients from using the phone after a reasonable period of time; or
(d)
those
other circumstances which would require reasonable limits on telephone use by a detained person or patient.
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Appeal procedure
5.
For the purpose of subsection 73(2) of the Act, the practice and procedure under the Rules of the Supreme Court, 1986
relating to appeals apply to an appeal from a decision of the review board.
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Schedule
(a
)
Baie
Verte
Peninsula
Health Centre, Baie
Verte
(b)
Brookfield
Bonnews
Health Care Centre, New-Wes-Valley
(c)
Burin
Peninsula
Health Care Centre, Burin
(d)
Calder Health Centre, Burgeo
(e)
Captain
William
Jackman
Memorial
Hospital
,
Labrador
City
(f)
Carbonear
General
Hospital
, Carbonear
(g)
The
Charles
S.
Curtis
Memorial
Hospital
,
St.
Anthony
(h)
Connaigre
Peninsula
Health Centre, Harbour Breton
(i
)
Dr. Charles L. LeGrow
Health Centre, Port aux Basques
(j)
Dr.G.B
.
Cross
Memorial
Hospital
, Clarenville
(k)
Fogo
Island
Health
Center
,
Fogo
Island
(l)
Green Bay
Health Centre,
Springdale
(m)
James Paton Memorial Health Centre,
Gander
(n)
Labrador
South Health Centre, Forteau
(o)
Labrador
Health Centre, Happy
Valley-Goose
Bay
(p)
Nain Nursing Station, Nain
(q)
Natuashish
Commuity
Clinic, Natuashish
(r)
Notre Dame Bay Memorial Health Centre, Twillingate
(s)
North Haven
Manor, Lewisporte
(t)
Rufus Guinchard
Health Centre, Port Saunders
(u)
Sir
Thomas
Roddick
Hospital
, Stephenville
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